Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old

Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old
Author: Carey McIntosh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004430636


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A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650–1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.


Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-18 - Publisher: BRILL

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